Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Program on Liberation Technology Stanford University




Program on Liberation Technology

Lying at the intersection of social science, computer science, and engineering, the Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods.

The Program will examine technical, legal, political, and social obstacles to the wider and more effective use of these technologies, and how these obstacles can be overcome. And it will try to evaluate which technologies and applications are having greatest success, how those successes can be replicated, and how less successful technologies and applications can be improved to deliver real economic, social, and political benefit. Read more »



LibTech seminar series, winter quarter

The Liberation Technology Seminar Series for the winter quarter features an impressive array of speakers.


The Narrowing Net
Are the days of web surfing over?

In an opinion piece for The New York Times on Feb. 4, Evgeny Morozov declares the days of cyberspace exploration over, snuffed out by the world of social media and search engine optimization.



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Program on Liberation Technology does not have any regularly scheduled public events at this time.


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